Example sentences of "[vb past] been making [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been making a living , that was all , and now he was going to swing for it because the fucking book would n't fucking burn ! |
| 2 | ‘ She had been making a noise last season and was Hobdayed during the winter . |
| 3 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |
| 4 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 5 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 6 | Boucher had been making a habit of beating Britain 's best 10stone 7lb men in Gary Jacobs , Mickey Hughes and Kirkland Laing , and Loughran 's win must be one of the finer British achievements of the past 12 months . |
| 7 | The eyes of four respectable women , bright with friendly interest , were looking eagerly towards him and somehow he found himself unable to explain that he had been making a study of extra-marital relations , detached and scientific though this had of course been . |
| 8 | She had been making a cup of coffee and was leaning over a lit ring on the gas cooker to put the kettle on . |
| 9 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 10 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the talks between Chad and Libya [ see pp. 37213-14 ; 37645 ] had been making no progress , thereby disappointing any initial hopes invested in them . |
| 12 | If you had been making the movie on film , the term cut would have been taken literally because each piece of cine film is physically cut and spliced onto the next . |
| 13 | Already , when she had been making the tea , the first exhibit of the day had arrived , brought in no doubt by a detective constable working on the case . |